WASHINGTON — To Rep. Doug Lamborn, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has outlived its usefulness.

The company’s 1,300 public radio and TV stations nationwide — 20 in Colorado — are responsible for everything from “Sesame Street” and “Frontline” documentaries to classical music and National Public Radio.

Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, says the time has come to cut them off.

“When the bill was first passed . . . it was back in the day when there were very few media outlets and the intention was to have another option for consumers,” Lamborn, who is leading an effort to repeal CPB funding, said Thursday. “Today we have so many cable channels. . . . The purpose of providing choices for consumers no longer applies.”

His push to strip away roughly $430 million in public money that CPB receives each year — thrice tried and failed in House floor votes since 1995 — will probably pass today in the Republican-controlled House in a package to fund the federal government through Sept. 30.

The measure is wrapped in the overall Republican spending plan for the rest of fiscal year 2011, which makes it hard for Republicans — even those who might like National Public Radio or PBS — to vote it down.

On its own in 2007, a similar proposal died, with 87 Republicans standing up and speaking out against it, said Tim Isgitt, a senior vice president at CPB.

“It’s not cutting some Washington bureaucracy,” Isgitt said. “It’s stations across the country. It’s troubling and very serious, and we’re taking it seriously.”

Colorado’s delegation will probably vote along party lines for the continuing resolution.

“It is not a value judgment of their programming,” he said, “but a decision as to whether or not government should be bankrolling entertainment.”

Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver was one of almost 100 House members who signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner earlier this week in support of public-broadcasting funding.

The continuing resolution still faces a steep challenge in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where some public radio advocates are already lobbying members to restore funding in the event the House measure passes.

About $6 million in public money is funneled to 20 public radio and TV stations in Colorado.

While each station has a slightly different financial makeup, 15 percent of an average operating budget comes from public dollars. The rest comes from underwriters, donors and sponsorships.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., tried to put public-broadcasting money back in the spending bill, but that effort failed late Wednesday.

Then, at the stroke of midnight, Lamborn went to the House floor to speak about the importance of this bill.

“We’re running a $1.6 trillion deficit, and we have to start somewhere,” Lamborn said. “This poor economy we’re in now is linked to the heavy deficit.”

Without the roughly $1.8 million that Rocky Mountain PBS receives each year in public money, chief executive Doug Price says, “we’ll still get up and make a difference in the lives of Colorado.”

Rocky Mountain PBS has 58 employees, and Price says about $1 million a year goes to children’s and educational funding, including “Super School News,” which teaches elementary-aged kids how to put together a broadcast story.

“To me, the political narrative is set somewhere else, the political narrative is that we’re some liberal institution, but the reality is we’re serving everybody,” Price said. “Our typical donor is a suburban woman who is exactly the kind of person voting for Doug Lamborn. . . . The government spends more on military bands than they do on public broadcasting.”

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